I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

Bonne bosse et reste le boss. -- Darryl Amedon

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal